Art & Furnishings made from Vintage Reclaimed Wood and Found Objects

Month: March 2016

A dragonfly that started with a meat fork found in a barn at the continent salvage site. This ancient rusty fork had a really cool yellow color on the handle and I happen to have two pieces of 1920s baseboard made perfect wings to make it into a dragonfly. There’s a little brass widget that … [Read more…]

I am very grateful to Jeff and Leslie, the owners of the farm, for sharing their bounty of beautiful old barn wood and artifacts with me! We loaded up my truck with wood from the old barn, tobacco sticks, and some other cool things like a scythe blade, vintage fertilizer sacks, railroad spikes, and a wooden label … [Read more…]

This folk art piece gets its name from the jar lid in the center, which I found in a barn. I don’t know the age, or what it’s a jar lid for, but it’s cool. I found it at the Albright Farm. The background is a piece of oak barnwood from the Finley Barn in … [Read more…]

I found a cache of about 16 antique TV cabinets in the attic of a barn at the Albright Farmstead/ Confluence. They were so cool I had to save them! Me Albright must’ve been a tv repairman or collector. There are many brands- GE, Silvertone, Zenith, and more. I made them into an art … [Read more…]

A way to upcycle a batch of antique piano keys from a piano I salvaged that was built in 1898! These keys are real ebony and ivory and have numbers stamped on them to help the builder put them in the correct order. I used a piece of wood salvaged from an outbuilding at … [Read more…]

One of a series of art pieces made on large wooden electrical spool ends, this was originally conceived as a trumpet flower and it took on a life of it’s own. The metal portion is made up of four pieces- a flywheel from a 1971 Ford truck, a gear found at the Albright farm … [Read more…]

I made this solo duck on a background of blue painted pine salvaged at Confluence, a really unusual and beautiful old blue color. The duck is made from 1920s pine flooring and a caster off of a salvaged piece of antique furniture. The beak is a railroad spike tip I framed the piece with thin strips of oak barn wood part of … [Read more…]

This is a pair of media tables made from 100 year old oak barn flooring with rusty metal pipe legs. They measure 5′ wide x 32″ high X 15″ deep, a custom order for Chapel Hill clients. The oak is out of a barn in Cedar Grove, NC, compliments of the Eno river Association. These … [Read more…]